Color

#796b5d

#796b5d
hex#796b5d
rgbrgb(121, 107, 93)
hslhsl(30, 13%, 42%)
oklchoklch(0.537 0.028 67.2)
Closest name: Archaeology (#6e6a5e)Relative luminance 0.1537

Colors that go with #796b5d

Charcoal, Champagne and Copper lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Real palettes that use #796b5d

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5d6b79

#795d5d · #79795d

#5d796b · #6b5d79

Split-complementary

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#5d7979 · #5d5d79

#5d795d · #5d6b79 · #795d79

Contrast

#796b5d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.15:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #62574b as the text (7.04:1)
Aaon black
4.07:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #827364 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #a29486 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #f0f0f0 (4.52:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #796b5d as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#796b5d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #796b5d
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #796b5d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/796b5d-c4b59c-62c9cb-2d2c1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md